- Deprecation of `contact:phone` has some advantages: Key `phone` is used far more often, Key `phone` is shorter to write and better to find in word completion functions of editors like iD, Data users don't have to support two methods of tagging phone numbers.
- Deprecation of `contact:phone` has one disadvantage: It's not grouped anymore and we have to solve this by creating a new wikipage which lists all keys that can be used for contacting purposes (e.g. throw a contact tab like the Babykarte has).
~ Sören Reinecke alias Valor Naram
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Subject: Re: [Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - (Phone)
From: Joseph Eisenberg
To: "Tag discussion, strategy and related tools"
CC:
Re: “if you want to display a tab with all the means of contact, you just have to look for contact:”That doesn’t work, because “phone=“ is much more popular and probably always will be, and the “contact:” prefix is not used terrible consistently (is a website actually a way to contact a feature? Usually not)Keys should be designed for the convenience and ease of use by mappers, because the time of individual mappers is by far the greatest value input into Openstreetmap. Database users and developers (myself included) need to do a little more work sometimes, to give thousands of mappers a little less work and a little more fun.I support deprecating “contact:phone” and just using “phone=“
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